HTHSCI 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Food Security, Housing First, Prescription Drug
18 Sep 2017
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Governments in canada have favoured public health care insurance over private insurance. This approach, which protects all people against risks related to illness, is essentially based on income tax: all citizens contribute in accordance with their income, rather than in accordance with the benefits they expect to derive. Thus, since its introduction, public health care insurance in canada has stressed the principle of transferring resources from the richer to the poorer and pooling the risks between the healthy and the less healthy. Federal government jurisdiction in matters relating to navy hospitals and quarantine. Federal government is responsible for delivering health services to groups that fall under its jurisdiction, such as aboriginal peoples, the canadian forces, veterans, and inmates in federal penitentiaries. Federal government has intervened in the provincial health care field by using its constitutional. Spending power, which enables it to make a financial contribution to certain programs under provincial jurisdiction, generally subject to provincial compliance with certain requirements.
